European Council on Foreign Relations

European Council on Foreign Relations
(Deep state milieu?)
European Council on Foreign Relations ; (Deep state milieu?)
Formation	2007
Founder	Mark Leonard
Headquarters	Berlin, German
Leader	European Council on Foreign Relations/Director;
Sponsored by	Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Subpage	•European Council on Foreign Relations/Council chair; •European Council on Foreign Relations/Director;
Membership	• Tomáš Valášek; • Radosław Sikorski; • Ewa Łabno-Falęcka; • Paweł Świeboda; • François Burgat; • Željko Jovanović; • Ismaël Emelien; • Şafak Pavey; • José María de Areilza Carvajal; • Mikołaj Dowgielewicz; • André Wilkens; • Jiří Pehe; • Samuel Žbogar; • Tamás Meszerics; • Srđan Darmanović; • Rocío Martinez-Sampere; • Ayşe Kadıoğlu; • Radmila Šekerinska Jankovska; • Rebecca Adler-Nissen; • Imma Aguilar; • Urban Ahlin; • Martti Ahtisaari; • Yoeri Albrecht; • Douglas Alexander; • Joaquín Almunia; • Ekim Alptekin; • Luís Amado; • Giuliano Amato; • Vincenzo Amendola; • Valerie Amos; • Niels Annen; • Giampiero Auletta Armenise; • Timothy Garton Ash; • Senem Aydin-Düzgit; • Asli Aydıntaşbaş; • Claudia Azevedo; • Annalena Baerbock; • Thomas Bagger; • Gordon Bajnai; • Julien Barnes-Dacey; • Lluís Bassets; • Pawel Zerka; • Susanne Baumann; • Marek Belka; • Edwin Bendyk; • Roland Berger; • Erik Berglof; • Cinzia Bianco; • Carl Bildt; • Andreas Bock; • Peter Bofinger; • Catherine De Bolle; • Ingrid Bonde; • Emma Bonino; • Laurence Boone; • Stine Bosse; • Amel Boubekeur; • Umit Boyner; • Anu Bradford; • Jennie Bradley; • Franziska Brantner; • Maurice Braud; • Harald Braun; • Majlinda Bregu; • Sandra Breka; • John Bruton; • María Sicilia de Bruyelle; • Goran Buldioski; • Piotr Buras; • Alistair Burt; • Ditmir Bushati; • Mara Carfagna; • Gunilla Carlsson; • Maria Livanos Cattaui; • Dita Charanzová; • Céline Charveriat; • Lolita Cigane; • Mathilde Ciulla; • Ian Clarkson; • Nicola Clase; • Julia De Clerck-Sachsse; • Robert Cooper; • Teresa Coratella; • Claudio Corbino; • Brendan Cox; • João Gomes Cravinho; • Lucinda Creighton; • Anna Terrón Cusí; • Massimo D’Alema; • Kostas BakoyannismMaria Damanaki; • Marta Dassù; • Ahmet Davutoğlu; • Hussein Dawood; • Massimo Deandreis; • Edin Dedovic; • Milica Delević; • Susi Dennison; • Ilinca von Derenthall; • Kemal Derviş; • Anne-Marie Descôtes; • Tibor Dessewffy; • Anna Diamantopoulou; • Karima Dirèche; • Hanzade Doğan Boyner; • Muriel Domenach; • Sorin Ducaru; • Miriam González Durántez; • Elma Durdevic; • Anthony Dworkin; • Hans Eichel; • Karin Enströ; • Steven Everts; • Piero Fassino; • Ádám Ficsor; • Marisa Figueroa; • Shoshana Fine; • Gianfranco Fini; • Lorenzo Fioramonti; • Joschka Fischer; • Roxanne Ford; • Karin Forseke; • José María Robles Fraga; • Ulrike Esther Franke; • Franco Frattini; • Lykke Friis; • Sigmar Gabriel; • Alessandra Galloni; • Jean-Baptiste Gallopin; • Carlos Gaspar; • Kristalina Georgieva; • Ellie Geranmayeh; • Anthony Giddens; • Isabel Capeloa Gil; • Nicole Gnesotto; • Alba Gomez; • José Manuel González-Páramo; • Mihai Gotiu; • Doreen Gotter; • Sylvie Goulard; • Alexia Gouttebroze; • Teresa Gouveia; • Richard Gowan; • Sandro Gozi; • Beatrice de Graaf; • Heather Grabbe; • Christine Graeff; • Camille Grand; • Charles Grant; • Swantje Green; • Gustav Gressel; • Dzhema Grozdanova; • Caroline de Gruyter; • Jean-Marie Guéhenno; • Ulrike Guérot; • Ulrike Guérot; • Claude Guibal; • Elisabeth Guigou; • Fernando Andresen Guimarães; • Jytte Guteland; • István Gyarmati; • Jonathan Hackenbroich; • Fabienne Hara; • Adam Harrison; • Sylvia Hartleif; • Connie Hedegaard; • Steven Heinz; • Anna Herrhausen; • Annette Heuser; • Ina Heusgen; • Diego Hidalgo; • Carla Hobbs; • Joanna Hosa; • Beáta Huszka; • Danuta Hübner; • Anna Ibrisagic; • Jaakko Iloniemi; • Toomas Hendrik Ilves; • Wolfgang Ischinger; • Diana Janse; • Carin Jämtin; • Jo Johnson; • Rasa Juknevičienė; • Mary Kaldor; • Bahadır Kaleağası; • Ivailo Kalfin; • Ibrahim Kalin; • Kersti Kaljulaid; • Kaja Kallas; • Sandra Kalniete; • Claude Kandiyoti; • Lea Kaspar; • Sylvie Kauffmann; • Piia-Noora Kauppi; • Roderich Kiesewetter; • Suat Kınıklıoğlu; • Riina Kionka; • Eckart von Klaeden; • Flavia Kleiner; • Gerald Knaus; • Jana Kobzova; • Bassma Kodmani; • Bert Koenders; • Bärbel Kofler; • Rem Koolhaas; • Dávid Korányi; • Stefan Kornelius; • Bernard Kouchner; • Andrey Kovatchev; • Ivan Krastev; • Martina Krogmann; • Anna Kuchenbecker; • Sebastian Kurz; • Brigid Laffan; • Sergey Lagodinsky; • Miroslav Lajčák; • Alba Lamberti; • Alexander Graf Lambsdorff; • Pascal Lamy; • Manuel Langendorf; • Remzi Lani; • Martina Larkin; • Andrew Lebovich; • Tania Lessenska; • Jean-David Levitte; • Daniel Levy; • Sonja Licht; • Guillaume Liegey; • Kadri Liik; • Gustav Lindstrom; • Linas Linkevičius; • Hugh Lovatt; • Irene Lozano; • Javi López; • Ulrike Lunacek; • Leiv Lunde; • Adam Lury; • Miguel Maduro; • Monica Maggioni; • Bruno Le Maire; • Cecilia Malmström; • Apostolos Mangiriadis; • Cristina Manzano; • Marco Margheri; • Alexander Marschik; • Katarina Mathernova; • Beatrice Weder di Mauro; • Eva Maydell; • David McAllister; • Kirsty McNeill; • Tarek Megerisi; • Andrzej Mendel-Nykorowycz; • Felix Mengel; • Anand Menon; • Tanja Miščević; • Dario Mihelin; • David Miliband; • Nickolay Mladenov; • Henryka Mościcka-Dendys; • Toni Roldán Monés; • Enrique Mora; • Susan Morgan; • Hedvig Morvai; • Pierre Moscovici; • Isabel Mota; • Nader Mousavizadeh; • Almut Möller; • Nils Muiznieks; • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi; • Wolfgang Münchau; • Michelle Müntefering; • Matthias Nass; • Max Neugebauer; • Kalypso Nicolaïdis; • Dietmar Nietan; • Pedro Norton; • Natalie Nougayrède; • Omid Nouripour; • Delphine O; • Christine Ockrent; • Janka Oertel; • Hanna Ojanen; • Andrzej Olechowski; • Dick Oosting; • Mabel van Oranje; • Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau; • Anita Orban; • Andrés Ortega; • Marc Otte; • Zaneta Ozolina; • Cem Özdemir; • Soli Özel; • Behlül Özkan; • Ana Palacio; • Monika Panayotova; • George Papandreou; • Laurence Parisot; • Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz; • Nicolò Russo Perez; • Kelly Petillo; • Mauro Petriccione; • Folke Pfister; • Eva Piera; • Søren Pind; • Kati Piri; • Georgi Pirinski; • Jean Pisani-Ferry; • Lapo Pistelli; • Rosen Plevneliev; • Lilianne Ploumen; • Ruprecht Polenz; • Nicu Popescu; • Charles Powell; • Marek Prawda; • Romano Prodi; • Andrew Puddephatt; • Jana Puglierin; • Lia Quartapelle; • Chris Raggett; • Kristi Raik; • Ana Ramic; • Emanuela C. Del Re; • Nicola Reindorp; • Didier Reynders; • Emma Reynolds; • Louise Richardson; • Marlene Riedel; • Alejandro Romero; • Alexander Rondos; • Adam D. Rotfeld; • Janet Royall; • Norbert Röttgen; • Nikolaus Röttger; • Majda Ruge; • Juan Ruitiña; • Daniel Sachs; • Ghassan Salamé; • Pasquale Salzano; • Stefano Sannino; • Patrycja Sasnal; • Julien Sauné; • Marietje Schaake; • Klaus Scharioth; • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer; • Pierre Schori; • Wolfgang Schüssel; • Andreas Schwab; • Michael Schwarz; • Karel Schwarzenberg; • Daniela Schwarzer; • Giuseppe Scognamiglio; • Piotr Serafin; • Narcís Serra; • Jeremy Shapiro; • Kamelia Slaveykova; • Andrew Small; • Wawrzyniec Smoczyński; • Javier Solana; • Erna Solberg; • Alexander Soros; • George Soros; • Ine Eriksen Søreide; • Annika Söder; • Jenny Söderström; • Volker Stanzel; • Volker Stanzel; • Christoph Steck; • Daniel Stefanov; • Rory Stewart; • Petra Stienen; • Coen van Oostrom; • Jonas Gahr Støre; • Andris Strazds; • Sabine Stricker-Kellerer; • Alexander Stubb; • Ion Sturza; • Michael Stürmer; • Christos Stylianides; • Ulf Sverdrup; • Hannes Swoboda; • Réka Szemerkényi; • Vessela Tcherneva; • Helle Thorning-Schmidt; • Henrik Thune; • Teija Tiilikainen; • Nathalie Tocci; • Caroline Hornstein Tomić; • Adam Tooze; • Ece Güner Toprak; • José Ignacio Torreblanca; • Andreas Treichl; • Rafal Trzaskowski; • Loukas Tsoukalis; • Erkki Tuomioja; • Vygaudas Ušackas; • Saskia van Uffelen; • Chuka Umunna; • Sinan Ülgen; • Justin Vaïsse; • Shahin Vallée; • Jordi Vaquer; • Tara Varma; • Arturo Varvelli; • Ivan Vejvoda; • Margrethe Vestager; • Vaira Vike-Freiberga; • Pere Vilanova; • Pierre Vimont; • António Vitorino; • Romana Vlahutin; • Alida Vračić; • Johann Wadephul; • Rob Wainwright; • Margot Wallströ; • Maria Weimer; • Geir Westgaard; • Sabine Weyand; • Karolina Wigura; • René Wildangel; • Andre Wilkens; • Andrew Wilson; • Nick Witney; • Peter Wolodarski; • Karla Wursterova; • Denica Yotova
	Shares members with the Integrity Initiative's Spanish Cluster

Founded in 2007, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a think-tank trying to copy its hugely influential US counterpart, the Council on Foreign Relations. The ECFR has a significant crossover with the Institute for Statecraft and the Integrity Initiative.

ECFR has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Warsaw and Sofia, with Berlin serving as headquarter. Being funded by and working on behalf of corporate interests, the think-tank looks for "threats" and pushes corporate-friendly policies like increased military budgets.

Origins

ECFR was founded in 2007 by Mark Leonard together with a council of fifty founding members, chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer, and Mabel van Oranje.

Funding

The ECFR is a private organization that relies on donations from big corporations and foundations close to billionaires, plus some funding from Western governments. It was originally established with the support of Open Society Foundations, Communitas Foundation and the Spanish FRIDE.

About half of ECFR's funding comes from such foundations, one third from governments and the rest from corporations and rich individuals. Open Society Foundations is the main donor to ECFR, funding with its grants one third (£2,345,566 in 2017) of ECFR's total income (£7,278,122 in 2017). Other donors include major organizations mainly from Europe and the Western world such as the foundation Stiftung Mercator (Germany) (£710,753 or ~10% total funding in 2017), European and the Japanese governments, NATO, leading corporations such as Daimler AG and Microsoft as well as rich individuals.

Members

ECFR's community includes serving foreign ministers, former prime ministers, members of national parliaments and the European Parliament, EU Commissioners, former NATO secretaries generals, business leaders and system-friendly thinkers and journalists. The Council gathers once a year as a full body for the Annual Council Meeting, hosted in a different European capital each year.

A document from the 4th Integrity Initiative Leak revealed that two members of the European Council on Foreign Relations were also members of the Integrity Initiative's Spanish Cluster: Borja Lasheras & Nika Prislan. Nacho Torreblanco, also an II member was director of the ECFR Office in Madrid. Kadri Liik is also a member of the IfS UK inner core‎.

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Event	Description
Open Society Foundations	A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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